{"id":1698,"date":"2016-12-14T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2016-12-14T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:05:20","slug":"plymouth-researcher-publishes-new-collection-on-doris-lessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/12\/14\/plymouth-researcher-publishes-new-collection-on-doris-lessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/david-sergeant\" target=\"_blank\">Dr\u00a0David Sergeant<\/a>,\u00a0Lecturer in English at Plymouth University, has co-edited and published a\u00a0chapter\u00a0in the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-doris-lessing-and-the-forming-of-history-12014.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Lessing and the Forming of History<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Edinburgh University Press).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1699 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"lessing-book\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book-260x390.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/12\/lessing-book.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-edited with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/kevin-brazil.html\">Kevin Brazil <\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/tom-sperlinger.html\">Tom Sperlinger<\/a>,\u00a0the volume considers\u00a0Lessing\u2019s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived. The twelve original chapters provide new readings of Lessing\u2019s work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical women\u2019s writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw on previously unstudied archive material.<\/p>\n<p>The collection\u00a0also explores how Lessing\u2019s writing can provide insight into some of the issues now shaping twenty-first century scholarship \u2013 including trauma, ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature \u2013 as they emerge as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s chapter\u00a0explores how Doris Lessing\u2019s fiction might provide an unusually strong vehicle for thinking through some of the questions of scale &#8211; for instance, the gap\u00a0between\u00a0the individual and the (global) community &#8211; which have become important to theoretical responses to\u00a0environmental crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr\u00a0David Sergeant,\u00a0Lecturer in English at Plymouth University, has co-edited and published a\u00a0chapter\u00a0in the book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History\u00a0(Edinburgh University Press). Co-edited with\u00a0Kevin Brazil and\u00a0Tom Sperlinger,\u00a0the volume considers\u00a0Lessing\u2019s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/12\/14\/plymouth-researcher-publishes-new-collection-on-doris-lessing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,589,588,257,142,422],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-sergeant","tag-doris-lessing","tag-edinburgh-university-press","tag-english-and-creative-writing","tag-fiction","tag-publication","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}